Micro-level data relations are rendered commonsensical by extractive rationalities

Evidence

These rationalities are more practical and specific than are the broad ideologies of data colonialism mentioned in chapter 1. They help make all the small choices involved with data relations seem rational and common sense. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 297

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s governmentality and the attention/surveillance schools’ interest in how subjectivities are produced — the crucial bridge between the data-colonialism and surveillance camps. — connects to: Data colonial extraction persists by converting data relations into durable social relations — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 84; Framing technology as autonomous disguises who profits from data extraction — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 511; Data relations expand by removing all limits to data appropriation — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 600 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Data relations fuse knowledge production with value extraction in one movement #expands (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 362
• Information capitalism requires semantic compression of behaviors into countable data tags. #corroborates (0.78) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 72
• Data extraction infrastructures deform the self that autonomy and freedom depend on #complicates (0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 148
• One-dimensionality works by assimilating the subject into objective structures #complicates (0.70) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 38